So, after this one I will write only one more chapter and perhaps an epilogue. I know it’s a bit soon, but I noticed that I need a lot of time writing this story. Time that I actually don’t have. But I wanted to finish this fic at least. So if you see anything from the previous parts that I still have to clarify, let me know. Oh, and even if this chapter doesn’t end well, I promise that there will be a happy ending. I guess, after all they had been going through in this story, they deserved it, lol. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian’s POV I woke up in a very good mood. My body was still tingling and I felt like making a Happy little dance. (Of course I wasn’t that silly, gee!) Sex did always wonders to me. It made me feel young, beautiful, strong and powerful. But as much as I enjoyed sex, I couldn’t remember to ever have been in such a “I want to embrace the world” mood after it. I guess that was Justin’s fault too. Speaking of Justin, I was pretty surprised not to see him in bed with me anymore. Where was he? At first I thought he could be in the bathroom. So I was already looking forward to some hot shower sex. But I noticed soon that he wasn’t even in the room anymore. I was a bit confused but not very worried yet. I thought maybe after our wild encounter he was down at the restaurant or so. (The kid was always hungry.) If Justin was busy, I had some time to go out and buy him a little surprise. Across the street I have seen a nice looking jeweler. Okay, okay, I wasn’t the most romantic guy in the world and didn’t do such things, normally. But the situation with Justin wasn’t “normal”. And I knew that the kid would appreciate such stuff. Maybe I should give him a ring as a sign that I wanted him to be my boyfriend? Boyfriend. Ha. I had to snicker about myself. Still a few weeks ago it was like a foreign word to me, something that didn’t fit me at all. It had been like a nightmare, now it was more like a dream. Funny how things could change. Maybe I finally grew up. I was old enough to settle down. Yeah. I just had put some clothes on when somebody knocked wildly at my door. Ah, I thought, it would be Justin who had forgotten his key. I smiled brightly when I opened the door. But I immediately stopped when I looked into the angry face of our Finnish soccer coach. “Do you have a watch?” He yelled at me. “It’s 2 pm already! Our match begins within an hour! You should have been at the sports field 90 minutes ago!” Oh damn. I had forgotten and overslept this appointment! “You better hurry up or you will get a lot of trouble!” He threatened, and I knew that he wasn’t joking. I really didn’t want to go back in jail. So I better looked for Justin and dragged his bubble butt to the sport fields. It was better anyway not to fill the belly before the match. I already practiced here for our soccer match because I ran like crazy through the entire hotel. I was looking in every restaurant, bar and shop, but Justin was vanished. “Mr. Kinney!” The receptionist suddenly called me when I was wandering through the lobby. “What is?” I paused and looked questioningly at her. “I should relay to you that Mr. Taylor had to take the next flight to the USA. And he is sorry.” “WHAT?!” I yelled so loud that she winced. “When was that?” “About 2 hours ago.” “Why didn’t you tell me sooner?” “Because Mr. Taylor told me not to wake you up. You needed your beauty sleep. And I’m glad I listened to him because the sleep worked perfectly…” Gee, what was she thinking? Did she really believe I was in the mood to flirt? Now and in that situation? And then even with a woman? She needed brain surgery if she thought so. Since Justin hadn’t left another message, I was more than confused now. What happened? We seemed to get along so well. We even had great sex this morning. I didn’t see any reason why Justin should have left me this way. I needed an explanation before I went insane! I had to go as fast as possible to the airport. Maybe I could still catch him right in time. Unfortunately I couldn’t go far. I just had called a cab and told the driver where to go when I suddenly felt a hand on my shoulder. “Oh no, you won’t get in this car!” I heard the angry voice of the soccer coach. “You won’t go to the airport. You’ll come with me to the sport fields.” “No, I can’t!!” I yelled, pushing his hand away. “Justin is at the airport already and wants to fly back to the States. I have to stop him.” “Stop him? You want to run away too! The blonde guy is already on the run, but you won’t escape either! Remember, I’m friends with the superintendent. If you refuse to come to the sport fields with me, I will make sure that your abidance in Finland will be longer than you wish for!” Oh fuck! I had no choice. I had to take part on this stupid match! Needless to say that I couldn’t concentrate on it at all. I played as bad as never before, looking at the watch all the time and waiting for the final whistle. Despite of my miserable feat we won the match in the end. (Just because the guys of the other team played worse than a bunch of kindergarten-girls) Thanks god I was free now. And while my team was partying, I raced to the airport. I didn’t find Justin here though. A female employee who noticed how despaired I was, was looking through the passenger lists for me. “Well, unfortunately I have to tell you that Mr. Taylor took the flight to New York an hour ago.” ARGH! I couldn’t believe it! I was so mad that I wanted to demolish something. But I couldn’t do anything. I still had to wait a day till I could fly home to Pittsburgh too. Oh, I was really angry with Justin now. And the entire flight I was only thinking of the sermon that I would address to him. Unfortunately I shouldn’t get the chance for it anymore. When I met Ted he told me that Justin had left our team. “What does that mean? Don’t he want to play soccer anymore?” I was falling from the clouds. I really didn’t get it. Soccer was Justin’s life. How could he give it up all of a sudden? If something happened to him? What if he got a bad injury or something? But before I could worry too much, Ted shook his head and starred sadly to the ground. “No, he’ll still play, but for another team. He told me that he wouldn’t have a future here anymore. And he wants to move to Florida where he would be better off.” “Florida? But it isn’t a stronghold for soccer either!” I felt like somebody punched me in the stomach. Did this mean that Justin didn’t want to have a future here where I was? He didn’t even like me enough to give me an explanation why he ran away from me! I didn’t understand it. What had I done to him?? I guess I have been very stupid to think that he would have any feelings for me. And now I got the quittance for my stupidity. See, that’s why I hadn’t done love before. Love only caused pain. And it looked as if I had been right when I felt my heart breaking in two.